In Danby Rural (also known as Curtis Cemetery) there is a row of Compton headstones.
See photo - The headstone inscriptions are the same as the headstones that were recorded in Compton Cemetery at an earlier date.

Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery.Believe to be Mary BaconInformation given by Ella Foster

Compton

William

May 18, 1848ae 12y 5m

Same inscription in Danby Rural CemeteryPossibly s/o Silas & Mary?

Compton

Richard, s/o Silas & Mary

January 27, 1851ae 26y 5m

Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery

Compton

Charles, s/o Silas & Mary

March 27, 1861ae 33y 5m

Same inscription in Danby Rural Cemetery

Danby Rural Cemetery has the following headstones for this Compton Family. See photo for pictures of these headstones.

Compton

Silas

August 23, 1895ae 97y 4m 22d

Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery

Compton

Mary, w/o Silas

June 1, 1865ae 59y 10m

Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery.

Compton

William

May 18, 1848ae 12y 5m

Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery

Compton

Richard, s/o Silas & Mary

January 27, 1851ae 26y 5m

Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery

Compton

Charles, s/o Silas & Mary

March 27, 1861ae 33y 5m

Same inscription in Compton Family Cemetery

Compton

Mary J.

April 1867ae 2y 4m

Not listed in Compton Family Cemetery

Compton

Theodore D.

1859 - 1926

Not listed in Compton Family Cemetery

The 1825 New York State Census, Town of Danby, lists Silas Compton as well as a John Compton. Both men are between 18 and 45 years of age.
There is a John Compton buried in the Danby Presbyterian Cemetery who died on May 18, 1860, 70y 11m 21d of age. Using a birth date calculator, John
Compton would have been born about May 28, 1789, and Silas Compton would have been born about April 1, 1798. Perhaps
Silas and John were brothers and came together to New York to settle in Danby.

Silas Compton also appears in the 1830 and 1840 US Federal Census, Town of Danby. In the 1850 US Federal Census, Town of Danby the following
information on Silas and his family is found:Silas Compton, 50, b. New JerseyMary Compton, 48, b. Vermont Charles Compton, 23
Amos Compton, 20Betsy Compton, 16Lewis Compton, 12Leonard Compton, 4Richard Compton, 25Jerusha Compton, 19 (Richard's wife?)
Fanny Pitts, 6.

A search of the LDS records revealed a Silas Compton, b. March 31, 1798 in Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey to John and Abigail Hanes Compton. This Silas
Compton was baptized in 1799 at the Clove Valley Dutch Reformed Church, Wantage, Sussex, New Jersey. Perhaps these are the records for the Silas Compton who
is buried in Danby; the age and the state of birth seem to fit.

Thank you Janet M. Nash for transcribing the original records into digital format (1998).
Thank you Janet M. Nash & Cheryl Hall for updating this record (Dec. 2003).

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